** Description changed:
Binary package hint: console-common
This bug may be in console-common, console-data, or the kernel.
There is no way to produce composed characters in textconsole
(ctrl+alt+f2) as defined in the "compose" lines of the keymap when using
a Swiss German keyboard and a UTF-8 locale.
Steps to reproduce:
boot to console.
load a Swiss-German keymap:
sudo loadkeys /usr/share/keymaps/i*/*z/sg-latin1.kmap.gz
check it has been loaded correctly by typing an u with two dots on it (right
to the p-key).
press the trema key (two keys to the right of the p-key)
press the A key.
expected output: A with two dots (Ä)
acutal output: none.
Note:
I'm not able to load an otherwise correct Swiss German except from the first
textconsole after boot. Running the above loadkeys command from the second tty
after having run it from the first tty results in an inability to produce the
(non-combined) u with two dots.
The "compose" lines in the keymap are not effective and are not reproduced
correctly by dumpkeys:
The line
compose '"' 'A' to Adiaeresis
is output as
compose '"' 'A' to ""
by dumpkeys.
This bug may be caused by loadkeys and dumpkeys being run in
latin-1-mode and bootime.kmap.gz being a gzipped latin-1 file, while the
general environment is utf-8.
This bug is also present on the ubuntu 6.06 live cd.
Versions:
+ ubuntu 6.06 LTS
console-common 0.7.55
console-data 2002.12.04
linux-image 2.6.15-28-k7 (bug also present with the corresponding i686 kernel)
** Tags added: compose composed console
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no composed characters in textconsole
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/103285
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